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...anything bothers her about her career, it is the fact that directors so often cast her as a lady of uneasy virtue. In her first straight dramatic part-in the forthcoming movie Austerlitz, with Orson
Sculpture in a Dairy. A year after his friend Picasso went to Paris, Manolo used his last peseta for train fare, arrived at Paris' Gare d'Austerlitz knowing one word in French: "Montmartre." Once there, Manolo rapidly established himself with his peasant shrewdness and high-spirited escapades as the Sancho Panza of Montmartre, and was soon fending for himself. Reports Picasso's mistress of that day, Fernande Olivier: "Happily, he fell in love with the daughter of a dairyman who hired him each day to sculpture animals and flowers in mounds of butter...
...local industries, including the Citroen plant, crippled for lack of workers. Police strengthened their cordon around the Chamber of Deputies, while the garde mobile (riot police) set up strongpoints all over Paris. By 1 p.m. thousands of Algerians had gathered at the Moslem mosque near the Gare d'Austerlitz. At 3 p.m. they formed themselves into a straggling parade led by a girl dressed in white. Chanting Algerian hymns and thrusting their right hands (forefinger extended) into the air in the Algerian nationalist salute, they marched along the quais toward the Place de la Concorde...
...never again wrote good poetry. She was found dead in the isolated country house in Austerlitz, N.Y., where she had lived alone since the death of her husband in 1949. Even near the end, sick and broke, she refused her publisher's proposition to compromise what she had written by writing what she called an "erotic autobiography" to accompany an edition of her love poems...
Died. Edna St. Vincent Milky, 58, fragile, elf-eyed poet laureate of the Golden Twenties; of a heart attack; in Austerlitz, N.Y. Daughter of a poor schoolteacher, Edna Millay was put through Vassar by a patron who admired her youthful verse. After graduation (at 25) she lived among the very poor, "very merry" bohemians of Greenwich Village, had a" fling at acting (she was briefly a Provincetown Player), wrote short stories (for Vanity Fair under the name Nancy Boyd). With the bittersweet impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock...